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fjt_128304 - CORPORATIONS Horlogers de Paris, émission de 1740 n.d.

CORPORATIONS Horlogers de Paris, émission de 1740 VF
220.00 €(Approx. 237.60$ | 189.20£)
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Type : Horlogers de Paris, émission de 1740
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,57 g.
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : LUD. XV. REX - CHRISTIANISS..
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XV, signé FM, type 582G.
Obverse translation : Louis XV, roi très chrétien.

Reverse


Reverse legend : SOLIS MENDACES ARGUIT HORAS ; À L'EXERGUE : HORLOGERS DE PARIS. ICC.
Reverse description : La déesse du Calcul assise, la main droite sur une horloge, la gauche sur une sphère.
Reverse translation : Elle corrige les heures mensongères du soleil.

Commentary


Le buste utilisé au droit de ce jeton a fait son apparition au début des années 1740. Les horlogers n’ayant, par la suite, fait frapper qu’un autre jeton avec un buste du type GP.628 on ne peut guère dater précisement ce jeton. Ce jeton fait partie de la série des Corporations.

Historical background


CORPORATIONS

In Rome, groups of artisans already existed: forming a college placed under the protection of a divinity, with a common house and fund. In medieval Europe, probably from religious brotherhoods, economic groups were formed between merchants called hanse or ghilde.. With the development of trade, craftsmen organized themselves into trade bodies or communities which brought together all those who practiced the same profession: masters, journeymen or apprentices.. To enter the body, you had to "swear" the profession. Alongside, there were free professions that could be practiced by all.. Each corps was headed by a collegial management responsible for enforcing the regulations of the trade, protecting the trade from competition and directing the mutual benefit society.. At the end of the 17th century, the king began to sell the functions of jurors and corporate trustees as hereditary offices, which led to serious financial difficulties at a time when the corporations no longer met the new economic requirements of the development of industry and business concentration. It is also in England that the corporations disappeared spontaneously because of the industrial revolution.. The corporations will be abolished in France in 1791 by the Constituent Assembly.

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